Did the European Union just ban End-to-end encryption?

OpenGears
1 min readDec 15, 2020

The EFF has already reported on this in October, 2020, the European Union has a timeline on “dismantling end-to-end encryption”. What has been a “draft for undermining encryption tools and installing backdoors" has resulted recently into a resolution on encryption, highlighting the need for security through encryption and security despite encryption from the European Commission, and there are a few recommendations on encryption from the EU Council.

2020 is really shaking up things: now privacy is luxury in the European Union.

As a reminder: e2ee is used in messengers, such as Signal, Whatsapp and similar.

What do you think will happen in 2021? Will messengers such as Signal be taken off the European market, or will they implement backdoors? Will this affect crypto (and the blockchain landscape generally)? What are your opinions in this regards?

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OpenGears

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